Personality Essay: The Importance Of Morality

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Morality isn't an obtuse philosophical concept but rather about the totality of everyday existence. If one desires to be better at their interpersonal skills, one must understand the concept of morality with all its sense and contradictions. Clarity of morality leads to less doubt and skepticism in one’s actions of life. The ability to align one’s thought processes and emotions with environment is aided by Morality. Increasing alignment helps in averting unnecessary painful conflicts with reality and dealing with the necessary ones. Thus also increasing one's chance to achieve success and happiness. The simple words of Krishnamurti capture succinctly the importance of rising above the intrinsic details and looking at the broad picture dispassionately …show more content…

If we can discern how it has grown about us and liberate ourselves from its many stupidities and cruelties, then there will be intelligence, whose action will be truly moral, for it will not be based on fear. If you observe dispassionately, you will see that our present day morality is based on deep egotism, the search for security, not only here, but in the hereafter. Out of acquisitiveness, the desire to possess, you have established certain laws, certain opinions which you call moral. If you are voluntarily free from possessiveness, acquisitiveness, which needs deep discernment, then there is intelligence, which is the guardian of true morality. You will say. "It is all right for us, who are educated, we need no one to support us in this morality; but what about the people. the mass?" When you regard others as not being cultured, then you yourself are not; for out of this so-called consideration for others exploitation is born. What you are really concerned with when you ask about another is your own fear of conflict and disturbance. If you understood the present false morality, with its subtle cruelty, then there would be true intelligence. That alone is the assurance of kindly morality. Inclusive and without …show more content…

Standing on this stance when one examines both sides, it's easy to see that the lines start blurring between objective and subjective morality. Following the thread of morality from its origin to the end (depending on where one draws the lines), the labels start to blur. Making the paradigm shift from “or” to “and” resolves the debate to a great extent and brings into light a new combinational and permutational idea. Morality isn't objective OR subjective, it's objective AND subjective. Morality could be subjective in two ways: Socially construction. The source of origin is the human mind. As the construct of morality is created from inside the mind, it can be subjective. Internalization. It's subjective in the sense of its existence or being held inside the

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